Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002

159 leaves : 250 x 130 (175 x 67) mm, bound to 250 x 130 mm

Copy of Euclid's Elements with several pages of commentary included at the end

Manuscript codex

1. f. 1v-158v: Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb / Uqlīdis -- 2. f. 158v-161r: Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Yazdī

Title from introduction (f. 1v)

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left, some taped over

Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia; diagrams on almost every page, set in text and in the margins

Script: Nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed

Decoration: Rubricated in red, headings and overlines in red; geometrical figures in red and black

Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1047 A.H. (Jan./Feb. 1638) (f. 161r)

Shelfmark: MS Or 64

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934

Brown leather with blind stamped central mandorla, two pendants along the vertical axis and frame

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description

Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR

Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO

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